Aberjhani Quotes

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.

Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peace

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters.

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.

The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

The Universe said, ‘Let me show your soul something beautiful.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.

If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a fossilized aberration that serves no useful purpose.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

When the lyrical muse sings the creative pen dances.

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams...

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago.